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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Keith Smith: $25 million annually is a fair deal for Josh Giddey, Bulls

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Keith Smith of Spotrac to preview NBA free agency and to discuss what Bulls guard Josh Giddey's next contract could look like as he's set to hit restricted free agency.

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0:00.0

Keith Smith is joining us now here on the Circus Sports Illinois Hotline. Download the Circa app today.

0:06.9

Check out his work on SpotRack or the front office show. Keith, thanks for joining us.

0:11.5

We're in a weird place when it comes to the Bulls. And the place that we're in is we're on the line of anger and apathy.

0:20.4

And it's very easy to cross over to the, to apathy.

0:24.0

But we're trying not to.

0:26.0

What did you think of what they did pre-draft and in the draft?

0:31.7

Yeah, I think in the draft, I don't have a problem with drafting Noah Senge.

0:36.8

I think that's a fine pick where

0:39.3

they were at. There wasn't anybody screaming out to me as like, oh my gosh, I can't believe they

0:45.5

passed on, you know, the players who went behind him. Carter Bryant, and maybe could have argued,

0:51.3

might have been a better pick. Maybe Derek Queen.

1:00.2

There's rumors out there that maybe they passed on that trade-up package from the Pelicans, which is a little scary if they did because that was such a good return that

1:06.9

they could have gotten there.

1:07.8

But I think that pick is okay i i didn't love the idea of

1:13.2

i can't remember if it was our tourists or mark who came out and said this guy's going to be back

1:19.1

and this guy basically rattled off the whole roster and it's like it was mark we okay like

1:24.1

what are we saying in that comment like Like we're saying we're good.

1:28.4

We're just not going to make any changes or, you know, because then if you do, like,

1:32.3

where, why did you say it?

1:33.4

If you don't, you know, like, are you basically telling people tune in in October and see

1:38.5

where we're at.

1:39.1

So yeah, it just feels like they're a little, a little stuck right now and not moving in any one direction.

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